CC Madhya 5.105
Madhya-līlā, Chapter 5, Text 105
সাক্ষাতে না দেখিলে মনে প্রতীতি না হয় ।
ইহাঁ যদি রহেন, তবু নাহি কিছু ভয় ॥’ ১০৫ ॥
ইহাঁ যদি রহেন, তবু নাহি কিছু ভয় ॥’ ১০৫ ॥
sākṣāte nā dekhile mane pratīti nā haya
ihāṅ yadi rahena, tabu nāhi kichu bhaya’
ihāṅ yadi rahena, tabu nāhi kichu bhaya’
Word by word
sākṣāte — directly; nā — not; dekhile — if seeing; mane — in the mind; pratīti — assurance; nā — not; haya — there is; ihāṅ — here; yadi — if; rahena — the Lord stays; tabu — still; nāhi — there is not; kichu — any; bhaya — fear.
Translation
The brāhmaṇa then began to think that if the people didn’t directly see the Gopāla Deity, they would not believe that He had arrived. “But even if Gopāla stays here,” he thought, “there is still nothing to fear.”